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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ruth feel about the mortgage being paid off?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Sad.
(c) She didn't know that he paid it off.
(d) Happy.

2. What is Andy's girlfriend's name?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Rose.
(d) Kirby.

3. How did Jack feel on the day he paid off the mortgage to the bank?
(a) Like a man freed from a prison sentence.
(b) No different than before the mortgage was paid off.
(c) Angry that he had to work his whole life to pay off the mortgage.
(d) Sad because there was nothing to work for anymore.

4. What is Mat's wife always working on?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Their old, beat up car.
(c) A knitting project.
(d) Her kitchen.

5. After a time, what happened between Rose and Jack?
(a) They went into business together.
(b) They had to stop talking to one another so that they could remain faithful to their marriages.
(c) Jack stopped talking to her even though she wanted to keep speaking with him.
(d) They began to have an affair.

6. What does the preacher do during Jack's service?
(a) He gives a lengthy concluding prayer.
(b) Sings.
(c) Prays the rosary.
(d) Talks about Jack and his accomplishments.

7. Who was one of Jack's personal heroes?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

8. How long was there between Jack's first meeting with Rose and their next encounter?
(a) Ten years.
(b) A few years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Two decades.

9. What is Jack's lawyer's name?
(a) Wheeler.
(b) Feltner.
(c) Pettit.
(d) Jones.

10. When friends and family begin to worry about Jack living on his own, where does Jack go?
(a) To Louisville to live with Clara.
(b) To Mat's house.
(c) To Rose's old house.
(d) To live in a hotel in town.

11. What is the best description of Glad Pettit's financial status?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Quite wealthy.
(c) Getting ready to file for bankruptcy.
(d) Poor.

12. What is one of the questions that Jack asks Andy?
(a) What the weather looks like it is going to do.
(b) What he plans to do with his life.
(c) How his mother is doing.
(d) How business in town is doing.

13. What does Mat do in his backyard on the night after Jack's service?
(a) Contemplates Jack in silence.
(b) Builds another barn.
(c) Prepares his own funeral service.
(d) Cries.

14. What was significant about Rose McInnis's marriage?
(a) It was so strange that the people in town thought it was an odd marriage.
(b) She and her husband were both under 20.
(c) They were in the midst of a very public divorce.
(d) The fought in public constantly.

15. How does Jack feel about television?
(a) He never turns it off.
(b) He loves it.
(c) It is an annoyance.
(d) He could take it or leave it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rose's husband when Jack saw Rose after the time had elapsed following their first meeting?

2. When Mat watches the Pettits leave, what does he realize?

3. What object does Jack's lawyer see that has a picture of Jack's hero on it?

4. After Mat determines that Jack is dead, where does he go?

5. Why is Mat annoyed on the day of the funeral?

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